Gaza ceasefire talks held up by Israel's refusal to withdraw all troops from territory: Sources

It says Israel's aid model violates humanitarian impartiality standards, is inherently unsafe

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GENEVA — The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on July 11 that it has recorded at least 798 killings both at aid points run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and near humanitarian convoys run by other relief groups, including the UN.

The GHF uses private American security and logistics companies to get supplies into Gaza, largely by-passing a UN-led system that Israel says has let militants divert aid.

After hundreds of Palestinian civilians died trying to reach the GHF's aid hubs in zones where Israeli forces operate, the UN has called its aid model "inherently unsafe" and a violation of humanitarian impartiality standards.

"(From May 27) up until July 7, we've recorded 798 killings, including 615 in the vicinity of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, and 183 presumably on the route of aid convoys," UN rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said in Geneva.

The GHF, which began distributing food packages in Gaza at the end of May after Israel lifted an 11-week-old aid blockade, said the UN figures were "false and misleading". It has repeatedly denied that deadly incidents have occurred at its sites, adding that "the most deadly attacks on aid sites have been linked to UN convoys".